The Opelousas courier., 1887-03-12

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Lake Charles Echo Louisiana bonds are
! now selling at 84a nts i'll the New York
market. This of itself is pretty good evi.
dence that the State has not gone to the bad
under the present administration.
N. o. Chronicle: First it was Grady aud
now it is Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, who as
pires to the Vice Presidency but Louisiana
is further away from New York, and Senator
Eustis would grace the office.
NO Chronicle: According to all the out
side predictions, New Orleans should be
cow pasture by this time, and the festive goat
prancing over its RUINS. But the predictions
were Inisfit. The city persists i'll growing.
DonaldsonyiIle Chief: A homestead associ-
alton is being organized here which promises
to become as popular aud successful as the
numerous societies of the same character in
operation at New Orleans and other points
throughout the State.
ST. Charles Herald: The law relative to
the killing of any wild game animals or birds
in the State went into operation March first,
and continues in effect until next October.
By it's provisions it is unlawful to hunt, trap
or kill deer, fawn, turkey or partridge. and
the fine for a violation of the same is $25.
| Major Heuer, the engineer in charge, re-
! ports to the Secretary of War: On the Bayou
/! TGche, about ten miles below Port Barre, is a
q
moved will interfere with the free naviga-
/ ton of this stream. The president of the
| police jury in st. Landry parish, however,
promises TO have the bridge so modified that
it will not interfere with navigation.
/ Waco Advance: Any man who leaves the
! country to go to the town who can make q
| living chopping cotton and thinning corn is q
fool. The whole country is in need of Drawn
and muscle. II all the third-class book
| agents and would-be editors would gravitate
| to the plow handles instead of che cities there
| would be a greater production of corn and
cotton aud a smaller production OF tramps.
| telegram dated Abbeville, March S, says:
| Civil Engineer McClaren and party survey
!; ing for the Jeanerette and Abbeville Railroad,
arrived this evening at Abbeville They ex
press themselves very much pleased with the
| general appearance of the country all along
| the line The right of way will soon be secur-
| ed, and the road built at an early day. The
| people of Abbevile are delighted with the
| prospects
| De Soto Democrat: Gov. Nichols, being
crippled physically and politically, has start
| ed in the race for Governor, about six months
ahead of any other candidate. His bodily
Affections was received while heroieafly bat
/ tling for his native State, but he was crippled
politically by bolting his party, and battling
! against the Democratic party, in the Con-
gressional contest Of 1884. We love him with
/
Louisiana can't afford to put a bolter at the
] head of the ticket.
| N. o. Chronicle Senat or Gibson has favor
ed us with copy of the scholarly speech he
delivered in the Senate, February 10th, on At
! lantic and Pacific routes. The Senate having
under consideration the bill to incorporate
/ the Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway Com
| pany, otherwise known as the Eads' bill,
Senator Gibson spoke Of the ten different
routes suggested for the crossing OF the 18TH
mus. He gave his testimony in favor of the
! best engineer, aud the best route for Ameri-
/ can commerce - the Tehuantepec route -
which made the distance to be travelled by q
sailing vessel 1850 miles shorter than by the
! Nicaragua route, and $3.50 miles shorter than
4 by the Panama route.
The Times Democrat, in an editorial on the
mineral resources of Louisiana, says: "Cata-
| houla parish has Deem the field of operations
I lately of party OF prospectors, who, suspect
! ing thae 1t possessed great modem mineral
wealth, made q hasty examination of the
! country. This examination was by no means
complete, yet it succeeded In unearthing
kaolin, gypsum, marls, chalk, acid iron earth,
! coal, marble of two kinds, said to be equal to
| the finest Italian, and traces of silver. This
was the result of merely preliminary and
! superficial examination, and it was SO salts
! factory that a company will be at once or
/ ganized to operate in developing the mineral
| resources of the parish, beginning on the
! marble, which is most favorabiy situated for
quarrying and exporting"
/ 4 correspondent writing from Cheneyville,
to the MarksvIle Bulletin says: The Farmers
/ Union, similar to the Texas Alliance -, is
| rapidly spreading throughout the parish. The
object is that by forming strong combina-
/ tion among the farmers, it will improve their
| condition . morally, intellectually and 1tnGn-
ciaHy." The order has its Grand State Union
at Ruston La, and the number OF members
are over ten thousand in Louisiana alone.
/ Mr.. Linn Tanner of Cheneyville holds a.
commission from the Grand State fFarmersl
Union as an organizing officer In the parishes
of Rapides, Avoyelles and St. Landry He
any OF the citizens of the above parishes and
will give necessary information to those who
will write to him.
Rayne Signal: Mr.. j. v. Guyrai of this
place, has set out quite q number of small
mulberry trees, and as soon as they attain
sufficient growth, we understand, expects to
bepin raising silk worms We trust his eX-
I periments in silk culture may prove success
full and preftable.-Large shipments of eg gs
from Abbevlle to New Orleans by way of
i this place, have been made regularly for the
a past three weeks. Another large shipment,
4 two hack loads) was made on wednesday
last by MIR. j. M Fraser Of that place. They
are shipped from this place on account of o
/ large saving in rrieght.-The election is over
4 and the parish supplied with full set of Off
! GERS The selected candidates are gentlemen
of integrity and possessing the requisite en-
ergv and ability TO satisfactorily discharge
the duties of their respective Offices ltsoula u,
'3 rot have been otherwise, however, 90 all tifa
q candidates were good and competent men.
Take Charles Echo: Many Northern visit
q ors to the convention expressed themaely 9
as highly pleased with our climate. and won ,.1
dered TO us why our people had not built re
sorsa along the shores OF our beautiful lake
for the accommodation q Northern ssasa people
4 danhE hI1t what thousands Of people from tht
calder sections would gladly avail themselVes
of The opportunity of visiting oar town dnf =
, ing the winters ii they were only certain q
nreper RECOMMENDATIONS Our friends are
right there No place u the 'ssu south fst Wss1 tha.
Tighs here III Lake Charles, and sailing Ash
aud cunning i good The ysar I. roana 1 hats as
fa.;l;s;ea srs first-cIaas and anple to accom-
] MEDIATE I'LL who desirs % visit this section 9
4 any time